OT - What Song (s) You Listening To Today?

[Romanis]

Listening to

This Magic Moment - Jay and The Americans

Be My Baby - The Ronettes

Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals

[MadAmster]

Just taken delivery of 23 singles from the US. I will set my gear up Monday morning and play both sides of all of them once I have given them a good cleaning. My favourites from the pile are:

J J Barnes - Please let me in
Otis Redding - Love man with Can't turn you loose on the flip
Little Anthony & the Imperials - Better use your head
Deon Jackson - Ooh baby
Mary Love - Satisfied feeling
Denise LaSalle - Married, but not to each other
Jackie Wilson - Soul galore

[Andy_Faber]

Just taken delivery of 23 singles from the US. I will set my gear up Monday morning and play both sides of all of them once I have given them a good cleaning. My favourites from the pile are:

J J Barnes - Please let me in
Otis Redding - Love man with Can't turn you loose on the flip
Little Anthony & the Imperials - Better use your head
Deon Jackson - Ooh baby
Mary Love - Satisfied feeling
Denise LaSalle - Married, but not to each other
Jackie Wilson - Soul galore

I think I'll make that wad my soundtrack for the evening MA

On the subject of the Otis song, co-writer/guitarist Steve Cropper once said:

"'I Can't Turn You Loose' was just a riff I'd used on a few songs with the MG's. Otis worked it up with the horns in about 10 minutes as the last thing we did one night in the studio. Just a riff and one verse that he sings over and over. That's all it is. With Otis, it was all about feeling and expression. Most of his songs had just two or three chord changes, so there wasn't a lot of music there. The dynamics, the energy, the way we attacked it - that's hard to teach. So many things now are computer-generated. They start at one level and they stop at the same level, so there isn't much dynamic, even if there are a lot of different sounds."

'Otis worked it up....in ten minutes'. There are legions of songwriters tried their whole lives and never got within a mile of writing a song that stirs the senses like this cut

[MadAmster]

I think I'll make that wad my soundtrack for the evening MA

On the subject of the Otis song, co-writer/guitarist Steve Cropper once said:

"'I Can't Turn You Loose' was just a riff I'd used on a few songs with the MG's. Otis worked it up with the horns in about 10 minutes as the last thing we did one night in the studio. Just a riff and one verse that he sings over and over. That's all it is. With Otis, it was all about feeling and expression. Most of his songs had just two or three chord changes, so there wasn't a lot of music there. The dynamics, the energy, the way we attacked it - that's hard to teach. So many things now are computer-generated. They start at one level and they stop at the same level, so there isn't much dynamic, even if there are a lot of different sounds."

'Otis worked it up....in ten minutes'. There are legions of songwriters tried their whole lives and never got within a mile of writing a song that stirs the senses like this cut

Otis! I was too young to have been able to see him live but his voice is very moving and expressive. His stage presence, from what I have seen of videos of some of his concerts, is massive. I've got goose bumps just thinking about it. What a performer.

[Andy_Faber]

Otis! I was too young to have been able to see him live but his voice is very moving and expressive. His stage presence, from what I have seen of videos of some of his concerts, is massive. I've got goose bumps just thinking about it. What a performer.

theres's a similar story about the first song Cropper and Redding wrote together: It was written as a response to a statement made by radio disc jockey Moohah Williams, when he nicknamed Redding as "Mr. Pitiful", because of sounding pitiful when singing ballads. Cropper heard this and had the idea to write a song with that name when taking a morning shower. Cropper then picked Redding up in his car on the way to the studio, asked how he felt about this idea, by the time they reached the studio the song had been written and they recorded it with the MG's in the first ten minutes of the session....

There is a football link in my twisted mind because I imaging Cropper/Redding stealing great soul songs from under the noses of others like Clough and Taylor snuck in for the likes of Hinton, MacFarland and Gemmill half a century ago

[MadAmster]

I didn't know the "pitiful" story. Interesting bit of trivia. Thanks!!

[Andy_Faber]

I didn't know the "pitiful" story. Interesting bit of trivia. Thanks!!

As first heard by me in an excellent BBC radio documentary commemorating Otis' death maybe 30 years ago, and provenance assured by the fact that the story was told in the gorgeous Southern drawl of Mr Cropper himself.

[Andy_Faber]

To move us away from the Faber/Madamster soul love-in:

Just finished listening to:

The Black Stone Cherry performance on yesterday's Michael Ball show. Black Stone Cherry fly the flag for 'Southern Rock' (think Lynyrd Skynyrd, old farts), and although listening to Michael Ball talking to anyone outside his tight little luvvie bubble in cringeworthy, I thought the boys gave a good account of themselves (unlike fellow rockers Magnum a few weeks ago, who I thought missed the moment a bit), and social media during Sunday confirmed they were well-received. Always happy to see 'rock' strike a blow, however small, against the juggernaut of hip-hop

[MadAmster]

To move us away from the Faber/Madamster soul love-in:

Just finished listening to:

The Black Stone Cherry performance on yesterday's Michael Ball show. Black Stone Cherry fly the flag for 'Southern Rock' (think Lynyrd Skynyrd, old farts), and although listening to Michael Ball talking to anyone outside his tight little luvvie bubble in cringeworthy, I thought the boys gave a good account of themselves (unlike fellow rockers Magnum a few weeks ago, who I thought missed the moment a bit), and social media during Sunday confirmed they were well-received. Always happy to see 'rock' strike a blow, however small, against the juggernaut of hip-hop

Strange that what today is perceived to be rock & roll, soul, R&B etc isn't anything like what those genres were "when we wuz lads". They may call it evolution or whatever but it aint rock & roll, soul, R&B anymore...... and don't get me started on EDM.... sheeesh!

[Andy_Faber]

Strange that what today is perceived to be rock & roll, soul, R&B etc isn't anything like what those genres were "when we wuz lads". They may call it evolution or whatever but it aint rock & roll, soul, R&B anymore...... and don't get me started on EDM.... sheeesh!

Not a fan then? is that of the music, the DJs or both?

My little publishing sideline is in 50s rock'n'roll, and believe me there are some VERY strong views on the use of the phrase rock'n'roll out of (their narrowly defined) context